Interplay between TonEBP and calcineurin-NFATc signaling pathways: A means of optimizing water reabsorption? Focus on "Calcineurin-NFATc signaling pathway regulates AQP2 expression in response to calcium signals and osmotic stress"

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Hasler, Udo ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Nephrology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 2; CALCINEURIN; TONICITY RESPONSIVE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; HENLE LOOP; HUMAN; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY TUBULE; NEPHROTOXICITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WATER ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; METABOLISM; NOTE; OSMOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 2; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; OSMOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 34250671135     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00008.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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